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Jordan police say they detonated explosives hidden in a warehouse in capital
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Jordanian security forces said on Monday they uncovered and detonated explosives hidden in a commercial warehouse in an industrial area southeast of the capital Amman.
The explosives belonged to a terrorist group linked to Iran © Mena Today
Jordanian security forces said on Monday they uncovered and detonated explosives hidden in a commercial warehouse in an industrial area southeast of the capital Amman.
Witnesses had earlier said security forces had sealed the Abu Alanda area in a wide scale security operation that comes two days after authorities announced they had detonated explosives uncovered in another location in the capital.
Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi
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